Immortal Martial Emperor

"Leave no one alive!"

Hong Yu roared.

The Divine Demon Wings unfurled as he charged forward. The Heaven-Ripping Divine Claw in his hand unleashed six ghastly, piercing white lights.

The light was brilliant, yet as cold as a winter wind.

It was even faster than lightning.

BOOM! BOOM!

Two consecutive attacks slammed into the Viper Mystical Illusion, erupting in blinding flashes of fire.

"Hahaha! Not even two or three Unparalleled True Dragons working together could easily break our Mystical Illusion. You think you can break our defense alone?"

Viper sneered disdainfully.

The powerhouses of the Earth Department were also full of confidence.

A playful smile touched Hong Yu’s lips. "Tougher than I thought! But I wonder if you can block this next one."

The words had barely left his mouth.

Hong Yu took a deep breath, crossing his Heaven-Ripping Divine Claws like a pair of scissor blades.

"Heaven-Ripping Divine Claw!"

A blue light flickered in his eyes.

He activated his Peeping Essence ability, clearly discerning every strength and weakness of the Viper Mystical Illusion.

Hong Yu locked onto a subtle flaw.

It was at the junction where the three powerhouses combined their strength. Because their cultivation levels varied, a crack-like weakness had formed at this node in the joint array—one so subtle that an ordinary expert would never find it.

If not for Hong Yu’s overwhelming power...

...and his powerful Spiritual Power augmenting his Peeping Essence ability, he would have never noticed it either.

Therefore...

"Die!"

Hong Yu roared.

He swung both Heaven-Ripping Divine Claws, one from the left and one from the right. They took form in the void before swooping down.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

A torrent of violent energy surged forward.

In an instant, a terrifying force slammed into the formidable Viper illusion.

"Hahaha! Still using the same move? It didn’t work last time. What makes you think it’ll work now?" Viper laughed smugly.

Hong Yu smiled playfully. "Are you sure about that?"

"Hm?"

Viper froze.

And then...

...his expression changed drastically. "Th-This is impossible! No, it can’t be..."

Before his horrified eyes...

...the Viper illusion that had given him so much confidence began to crack with a series of CRACK! CRACK! sounds. Horrifying fissures spread across its surface as it shattered.

The Mystical Illusion was connected to the Primordial Soul of every powerhouse.

When the Mystical Illusion shattered, the faces of all the Earth Department’s powerhouses changed. They felt the backlash and nearly coughed up blood. ’How can this be?’

"It’s not over yet!"

Hong Yu shouted fiercely.

Suddenly, the divine light coalescing around the six Heaven-Ripping Claws grew even more brilliant, unleashing a powerful energy fluctuation that seemed to stretch back to the Primordial Chaos.

The intense waves of energy forcibly widened the hairline cracks infinitely!

BOOM!

A deafening roar shook the very earth. The violent gale it kicked up battered the dense forest behind them, causing it to sway violently as if struck by a hurricane.

RUMBLE!

The hundred-meter-long Viper Mystical Illusion exploded.

Every powerhouse maintaining the array spat out blood, their faces turning pale as they staggered and flew backward.

They were scattered everywhere.

In a pathetic state, they stared at the six-winged Hong Yu, their eyes filled with disbelief.

Viper suppressed the wildly churning qi and blood in his body. His eyes, filled with venomous hatred and fury, fixed on the middle-aged man. "Didn’t you say he was just an ordinary Early-stage Primordial Embryo Realm cultivator? How is he this strong?"

"I... How was I supposed to know..."

The middle-aged man felt utterly wronged.

The faces of all the Earth Department powerhouses were grim. Watching Hong Yu slowly fly toward them, a chill crept into their hearts.

Hong Yu gazed at them. "So, are you still not going to tell me where the Snake Alliance plans to ambush the powerhouses from the Southern Ten Nations Alliance?"

"Hmph! The Snake Alliance has no cowards who fear death!"

"That’s right! If we don’t talk, you won’t dare to kill us."

"If you dare to lay a hand on us, your friends will die with us!"

"All the members of our Snake Alliance’s Celestial Slayer Division have been dispatched, and our Alliance Leader is taking action personally! Even a powerhouse in the top thirty of the Unparalleled True Dragons would face certain death!"

The powerhouses of the Earth Department clamored unscrupulously, emboldened by their perceived leverage.

They were convinced that Hong Yu was concerned for the safety of the Southern Ten Nations Alliance and wouldn’t dare to kill them.

Unfortunately for them...

...they had guessed wrong this time.

"I gave you one last chance. It’s a pity you didn’t know how to cherish it."

As soon as he finished speaking, Hong Yu’s figure vanished from where he stood.

"Where’d he go? Where is he?"

The dozen or so powerhouses of the Earth Department looked at each other in dismay.

To suddenly vanish before their very eyes was an inconceivable feat, sending a bone-deep chill through them.

Viper’s eyes narrowed as he scanned his surroundings. His strength was the greatest, so his Perception was naturally the sharpest.

Suddenly...

Viper spun around and roared at one of his men, "Watch out!"

His warning was quite timely.

Unfortunately...

...the powerhouse didn’t understand right away. He looked confused. "Huh? Watch out for what?"

Then he realized everyone was staring at something behind him.

A cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He instinctively turned around, only to see a cold glint of light shooting toward him.

Confused, he watched as his line of sight drifted lower and lower.

He could see his own body, his own legs.

’Wh-What’s happening?’

With this final trace of confusion, the Early-stage Primordial Embryo Realm powerhouse lost consciousness, his head separated from his body.

HISS!

A series of chilling gasps filled the air.

An Early-stage Primordial Embryo Realm powerhouse couldn’t even withstand a single exchange with him. He didn’t even know how he died.

Such methods were simply inconceivable.

"How could this happen? His speed is unbelievable!" one powerhouse exclaimed.

Another was overcome with a strange terror. "How were we so blind as to provoke such a god of death?"

Too bad there was no medicine for regret in this world.

Viper roared, "Don’t panic! Everyone, band together and fight him!"

"Band together? Will that work?"

A soft voice suddenly spoke.

Viper’s very Soul felt the terror. He instinctively dodged to the side just as the spot where he had been standing exploded with a BOOM.

Six claw marks tore through the ground, leaving six gouges a full ten meters deep—the work of the Heaven-Ripping Divine Claw.

"Phew!"

Viper gasped for breath, silently thanking his luck.

But just as he was secretly rejoicing at having dodged a bullet, that nightmarish voice sounded in his ear again: "You’re too slow."

"Damn it!"

Relying on his vast combat experience, Viper spun around and thrust out a Palm Seal.

The Palm Seal coalesced into a black viper, its vicious fangs bared as it lunged at Hong Yu’s side.

"Great Destruction Fist!"

Hong Yu snorted coldly.

The afterimages of his fist were as dazzling as summer flowers, but the terrifying fluctuations were like a tidal wave.

BOOM!

The punch landed, and Viper’s body shuddered violently.

A line of blood spread from the top of his head, enveloping his entire body in an instant.

BANG!

Viper, the number one expert of the Earth Department, whose hands were stained with the blood of countless powerhouses, was blown apart by Hong Yu’s punch, leaving not even a complete corpse.

"Damn it! This guy’s too tough! Even Viper is dead! Run!"

The crowd roared in terror and scattered like startled birds.

How could Hong Yu let them escape?

"Since you’re here, you can all stay."

The Divine Demon Wings were impossibly fast. Not a single person could escape Hong Yu’s pursuit.

In just five minutes, the dozen or so Primordial Embryo Realm powerhouses from the Earth Department were all dead, their bodies dismembered, not a single corpse left whole.

Bright red blood slid down the Heaven-Ripping Divine Claw.

It dripped onto the ground, splashing into a spray of bloody mist that scattered in the air.

Hong Yu calmly looked ahead at the middle-aged man, who now reeked of filth, having wet himself in fear. He said flatly, "You’re the only one left."

"N-No, don’t kill me! I’ll talk! I’ll tell you everything..."

The middle-aged man wailed, his legs gave way, and he knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly as he spilled the information. "The Alliance Leader... he took the men from the Celestial Slayer Division to ambush the people from the Southern Ten Nations Alliance at Windbreak Pavilion! Given their speed, they should have already engaged by now! I’ve told you everything I know! Please, don’t kill me!"

The middle-aged man kept kowtowing.

Hong Yu narrowed his eyes and gazed into the distance.

Windbreak Pavilion was located in a valley on the main path between the Outer City and the docks. It was named for the pavilion built there.

"How strong is the Celestial Slayer Division?" Hong Yu asked.

The middle-aged man held nothing back. "The Alliance Leader is rumored to be an Early-stage Primordial Spirit Realm powerhouse. The Vice Alliance Leader, Scarface, is at the Peak of Primordial Embryo Realm. The Celestial Slayer Division also has twenty other Primordial Embryo Realm powerhouses!"

"They even have a Primordial Spirit Realm powerhouse?"

Hong Yu frowned.

The middle-aged man said, "Although the Alliance Leader is in the Primordial Spirit Realm, he is not a Heaven-Transforming Realm genius!"

"I see."

Hong Yu nodded.

As he turned, he flicked his wrist, and a silver light sliced the middle-aged man in half.

The middle-aged man stared at Hong Yu with a dazed and venomous look. In the final moments before his body split in two, he asked with indignation, "Wh-Why?"

Hong Yu glanced at the man’s hand, hidden behind his back, and said coolly, "You brought this upon yourself."

THUD!

The middle-aged man’s body fell into two halves in a pool of blood.

His right hand slowly opened, revealing a black Command Arrow used for sending messages.

The man had been planning to send a message to the Snake Alliance’s leader to warn them after Hong Yu left.

Unfortunately, Hong Yu saw through his plan.

And he lost his life for it.

This just proved the old saying: don’t court death.

’Windbreak Pavilion... Snake Alliance...’

Hong Yu narrowed his eyes, his gaze chillingly cold. ’I hope Senior Brother Feng and the others are unharmed. Otherwise, I don’t care who’s backing you, Snake Alliance. I, Hong Yu, will make you pay a heavy price!’

His Divine Demon Wings beat, and Hong Yu flew toward Windbreak Pavilion.

「Meanwhile.」

In the valley where Windbreak Pavilion was located, Feng Xue Xin, Luoo Xiaoguai, and the other powerhouses from the Southern Ten Nations were on high alert, their nerves stretched taut as if facing a great enemy.

Dozens of menacing powerhouses surrounded them, their bodies pulsing with a cold, murderous Evil Qi.

Feng Xue Xin frowned and scanned the area, his gaze landing on the scar-faced man. "Who are you? What is the meaning of this, stopping us here?"

"You’re Feng Xue Xin?"

the scar-faced man asked in return.

Feng Xue Xin nodded. "I am."

"You’re from the Southern Ten Nations Alliance, right?" the scar-faced man continued to ask.

Feng Xue Xin nodded, not understanding the situation.

The scar-faced man nodded, then gestured sharply to his men, a savage expression on his face. "Since you’re from the Southern Ten Nations, then we’ve got the right targets. Someone wants us to make sure you stay here forever." He looked at the Celestial Slayer Division powerhouses behind him and ordered coldly, "Attack!"

"Kill!"

The Celestial Slayer Division powerhouses, eager for battle, closed in for the kill.

The group from the Southern Ten Nations braced themselves as if for a great battle.

Feng Xue Xin took a deep breath. An aura erupted from him like a tornado, the powerful presence disrupting the Spiritual Power of heaven and earth and causing intense fluctuations.

Coldly confident words came from Feng Xue Xin’s mouth...

"If you want to keep us here, I’m afraid you’re not capable enough!"